Josh Berkus wrote: >Folks, > >I deleted a mailing list using rmlist. However, mailman continues to >send out messages to the recipients on this list, and I can't seem to >make it stop. There's ~~ 3000 pending deliveries, so I'd really rather >that they not go out. > >For now mailman is shut down. How do I clean out its pending messages >queue entirely?
First of all, if the list is gone, i.e. there is no lists/LISTNAME/ directory in Mailman's hierarchy, no currently queued messages will be processed. Outgoing runner or some other runner may pick up queue entries for this list, but the list won't be there, so the queued message will be shunted with an error log message 'Dequeuing message destined for missing list: LISTNAME'. Therefore, you can just restart Mailman and any messages in Mailman's queues from the affected list will just wind up in the shunt queue and won't be processed. Thus, any 'pending' deliveries which will go out have already been delivered from Mailman to the MTA, and stopping them has to be done in the MTA (unless that's moot at this point). -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
